Chapter 107: Introduction to Spatial Studies

Although Quiet Town is a multiplayer dungeon, the progress of players clearing the dungeon is not synchronized with one another.

Each player will be settled individually based on their own performance within the dungeon.

Want to put in no effort at all, hide in a safe spot, and leech rewards after your teammates finish the dungeon? Sorry, in Abyss Game, that kind of thing doesn't exist.

If you really want to be a boss and clear the dungeon lying down, that's not impossible either.

One way is to spend money to buy information from the main players clearing the dungeon. Sword Star holds a small meeting with his helpers every night to exchange information; in fact, this carries the meaning of passing information to the helpers and making up for putting them in danger.

The second way is to hire enough hired thugs as bodyguards, staying under protection the entire way to complete the dungeon.

I've heard that the core direct descendants of major powers, when clearing certain special dungeons, will hire many such bodyguards.

However, even if their progress is the same, different players will still be settled independently.

This is Abyss Game's way of looking after players' personal privacy.

After all, what skills you learn from the dungeon and what treasures you obtain will all be reflected in the settlement; no one wants these secrets discovered by others.

Same as the previous two times, Wu Chang stood in the settlement space, watching his various performances in the dungeon on the video wall.

"Player Number 4444444 has successfully completed the dungeon Quiet Town. Settlement begins based on the player's performance in the dungeon."

"Player has completed Main Quest One: Successfully survive thirty days in the town."

"Player has completed Main Quest Two: Investigate the missing Earl and seek the truth."

"Through diligent labor, the player successfully earned the recognition of the townsfolk of Bluff, became a town councilor, participated in the Divine Grace Day celebration, and uncovered the secret of Bluff Town."

"Player has uncovered the secret of Bluff Island and fully explored all seven inner worlds."

"Player has successfully cleared all seven inner worlds and collected all seven Proofs of the Seven Deadly Sins."

"Player has completed the hidden side quest: Find the missing Saint and recover the Holy Stigmata."

"Player successfully discovered Earl Germain's plot, disrupted his plan, and prevented the Fallen Idol from becoming an evil god."

"Player discovered Professor Egbert's secret, fulfilled the professor's wish, and successfully rescued the Saint."

"Player successfully uncovered the Church and the Great Mother's plot, successfully prevented the Great Mother's descent, and stopped the harvesting of faith power from all planes."

"Dungeon completion: 100%!"

"Title Perfectionist activated, dungeon completion +5%. Intermediate Reward Dungeon privilege activated, dungeon completion +8%. Final dungeon completion: 100%!"

"Because the player activated the reward dungeon, the overflow dungeon completion has been converted into dungeon rewards. Base dungeon rewards increased by 65%."

"Intermediate Reward Dungeon privilege activated, base dungeon rewards increased by 10%."

"Dungeon rating: Perfect!"

"Experience and Tarnish Silver Coin settlement correction: 300%!"

"Player obtained experience: 6300 (1200 × 1.75 × 3)."

"Player obtained Tarnish Silver Coins: 10500 (2000 × 1.75 × 3)."

What Wu Chang didn't expect was that the Intermediate Reward Dungeon would convert the overflow dungeon completion into dungeon rewards.

Neither Zhao Yan nor Cotton had mentioned this point.

But thinking carefully, even with the Intermediate Reward Dungeon privilege, exceeding 100% dungeon completion is almost impossible.

For ordinary players, even reaching 60% dungeon completion and a B clear rating is extremely difficult; over-clearing for them is like getting a perfect score on the college entrance exam.

Theoretically it exists, but in practice no one has ever seen it.

What surprised Wu Chang even more was that the completion converted into base dungeon rewards, and multiplied with the Perfect rating's settlement correction.

This nearly doubled his clear rewards.

If Intermediate Reward Dungeons are this strong, wouldn't Advanced Reward Dungeons be out of this world?

No wonder players with potential are all willing to join major powers; developing within a major power, the nourishment is truly excessive.

"Player's dungeon rating has reached S-rank. You may designate one item from the current dungeon world as a special drop reward. The selected item must be a prop for which usage rights have already been obtained. Please make your selection."

Wu Chang looked at the item list; there were indeed quite a few good things inside.

For example, the fully automatic camera used by Sword Star — it can not only candidly capture clues that Wraiths cannot display, but each candid shot also increases the temporary Inspiration cap.

Even when special photos are taken, it causes Inspiration to surge explosively.

For players with low Willpower, using it is a double-edged sword, but for Wu Chang, who doesn't have to worry about Inspiration going berserk, both edges of this sword point toward the enemy.

Besides the fully automatic camera, the Postman's Delivery Pack is also a good choice — it can combo with True Self's Giant Whale Transformation.

Enter the dungeon, have True Self wear the Delivery Pack, then find a corner to eat, eat, eat, and once full, come out of hiding and start steamrolling — that's also a way to clear the dungeon.

However, after looking through the item list, he ultimately chose the Proof of Pride. The Proof of Pride not only has powerful effects of its own, but is also the most crucial component of the Holy Stigmata.

In the future, when Irene completes the Holy Stigmata and becomes an artificial god, she will still need to start from the Proof of Pride.

If Irene can stably use her true divine form, that would definitely be worth more to him than a few extra points of Inspiration or Willpower.

"The special item chosen by the player, Proof of Pride, will undergo a skill change after leaving the dungeon plane. Maintain selection?"

"Confirm."

"Item Name: Proof of Pride"

"Item Type: C"

"Item Skill: Pride."

"Skill Description: While holding the Proof of Pride, when facing mental control-type judgment skills, the judgment pass requirement is reduced by 25%. When communicating with others, there is a probability of causing the target to feel fear, voluntarily submit, or reveal information. The probability depends on the user's Willpower stat."

"Note: Legend has it that the secret to becoming a god is hidden within the Proof of Pride. Perhaps clues to deciphering it can be found from a master of mysticism."

Setting aside the Holy Sigil Core within the Proof of Pride, judging purely by the item's abilities, Wu Chang was also very satisfied with it.

The voluntary submission effect, when used well, is absolutely a god-tier interrogation skill, thoroughly solving his problem of only being able to obtain information from the dead.

"Player's dungeon rating has reached Perfect. You may select one rare item from the current dungeon plane as a reward."

"Introduction to Spatial Studies."

"Theory and Foundations of Light Magic."

"Magic Puppet and Holy Statue Alchemy Circuit Design Principles."

One Eileen as a holy statue was already enough; spending energy on these things was far less worthwhile than raising his own strength.

So "Magic Puppet and Holy Statue Alchemy Circuit Design Principles" was eliminated first.

The reason for ruling out "Light Magic Theory and Fundamentals" was similar — with a master-level Light mage like Eileen around, if he went to study Light magic himself, first, their roles would overlap and waste resources; second, he would only invite humiliation.

Eileen was the Church's Holy Maiden, the designated vessel of the Great Mother; "can easily master any Light-attribute magic" was even written into her stat panel.

Using Light magic alongside her would easily invite unwanted scrutiny.

In the end, the only one left to choose was "Introduction to Spatial Studies."

"Art: Beginner Spatial Magic."

"Art Grade: F."

"Spatial Magic can be upgraded by paying Tarnish Silver Coins, or by absorbing spatial-attribute spiritual items; this art can be raised at most to Grade A."

"Upgrading the art to Grade E requires 3,000 Tarnish Silver Coins."

Compared with the Thunder Art Remnant Pages, which was also an art, Spatial Magic had a much higher ceiling, but the upgrade cost was also considerably higher.

Beneath the art were only two skills, but both were extremely practical, namely:

"Efficient Spatial Utilization" and "Inner World."

"Efficient Spatial Utilization" could boost the effect of all his spatial-type skills by 50%, including his portable space.

One had to remember that portable space capacity was unusually expensive — expanding the spatial backpack from 1 cubic meter to 10 cubic meters required 50,000 Tarnish Silver Coins.

Calculated this way, as long as the spatial backpack was expanded beyond 10 cubic meters, the skill Efficient Spatial Utilization alone was worth at least 25,000 Tarnish Silver Coins.

"Inner World," as the name suggested, could be used to open up an inner world similar to the one on Briful Island.

All the magical items needed could be bought in the trading district; once the Inner World was set up, it would be an extremely safe sanctuary.

After the Spatial Magic grade rose, rules could even be set within the "Inner World."

Containing both spatial-type and rule-type abilities at once, the ceiling of the Inner World skill simply could not be low.

After the rating reward was chosen, the instance settlement came to an end.

Quiet Little Town was an ordinary instance; the instance was not in an uncontrolled state — the upside was that the instance's difficulty would be somewhat reduced, the downside was that the instance's pollution value was too low, not exceeding 85 points.

Even with a perfect clear, no random title could be obtained.

However, the harvest from this instance was already plenty — the Shadow-Face Mask had been recast, the artificial god Eileen had been brought out of the instance, and the rewards from Eberhardt's Crimson Grudge had not yet been checked.

As a reward instance, it had also brought experience and Tarnish Silver Coins exceeding those of an ordinary Grade C instance, so there was no need to fuss over that one title.

After settlement was complete, he exited the settlement space and returned to the instance waiting hall of Red Wave Space.

The instant he came out, he froze for a moment.

Whoa, why were there so many people.

(End of this chapter)